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| Jag anser inte att kongressens funktion är att fungera smidigt. Den bör släpa sig fram till beslut. | Barber B. Conable, Jr. |
| Kongressen: bingo med miljarder. | Red Skelton (1913-1997) |
| Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. | Boris Marshalov (1902-) |
| Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. | William J. Brennan, Jr. |
| Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. | Shirley Chisholm (1924-1924) |
| I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. | Barber B. Conable, Jr. |
| During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. | Al Gore (1948-2001) |
| Congress: Bingo with billions | Red Skelton (1913-1997) |
| Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. | Donald Rumsfeld (1932-) |
| Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. | Andy Grove |
| If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a | Barber B. Conable, Jr. |
| Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority. | Barber B. Conable, Jr. |
| Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he got there and the rest of the time wondering how the other members got there | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Congress seems to favor a stable government, judging from the amount of stalling it does | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| Congress is continually appointing fact-finding committees, when what we really need are some fact-facing committees. | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress, | Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) |
| You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! | Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) |
| Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission. | Shirley Chisholm (1924-1924) |
| It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You heard about the Medicare actuary who was forced to fudge the numbers and lie to Congress to keep his job. You heard the falsified numbers in Iraq on everything from the cost of the war to the number of trained Iraqi troops to a slam dunk case for weapons of mass destruction. You heard about the administration sponsored fake newscasts to mislead people all across America. | Senator John Kerry (1943-) |
| Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment. | William J. Brennan, Jr. |